Filter suggested chords by contained notes

Scaler 3 Feature Requests
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Hi,

It would be enormously helpful to be able to filter chords in Suggest Mode and the Circle of Fifths page (and other pages as well, but those two especially) based on the notes they contain.

For example, very often I’ll have a “chord” in my set with only 1 note based on a voice leading I have in mind, and I am using Scaler to find a full chord that fits. But if a chord contains a single note, the Circle of Fifths page will only suggest chords for which that note is the root. And since Suggest Mode can only be used for the next empty chord space, my best option is to actually delete my incomplete chord and start flipping through all the suggested chords to see if they contain the note I want.

It is frustrating to know that all the information I need is right there but not searchable, and that I have to delete my chord-in-progress and start shooting in the dark rather than feeding the note to Scaler as an input.

Thank you for your continued work on the plugin.

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I wonder if we have a similar function to the All Scales function where we actually highlight the root key and allow users to remove the root note. That way it would potentially show chords that contain those notes without preferring the root. Otherwise we have a ‘No Root Note Preference’ near the ‘Chord Suggestion’ column which could do the same thing. Thoughts?

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Either of those would be excellent!

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i second this as well!